Pundits

updated Sat. March 17, 2018

Yes, once again we hear the cries of suffering, anguish, agony and grief from the victims, survivors and families of those killed or wounded in yet another gun-induced massacre, and hear the obligatory moment of silence from Congress at this 18th slaughter of innocent people in 2018 by guns as weapons.

Each day, politics seems to divide the nation further and further. On TV, Pundits and politicians flamboyantly argue with each other, neither side listening to the other. Your facebook feed is full of friends from high school fighting over policies they know nothing about. The U.S. President takes to twitter to airÃÂ ...

That's why everybody should just chill and not get carried away with inflation fears, which have led far too many pundits off the deep end. When I dug into the data from the years before the Great Inflation emerged, I found that inflation remained quiescent even after the great economic boom of the 1960s gotÃÂ ...

In week 17 of NBA power rankings lists Pundits are all over the map regarding the OKC Thunder with a high of 5th and low of 17th. Heading into the All-Star Break incredibly the Pundits are the most uncertain about the OKC Thunder. While some scribes recognize the prowess this Thunder squad displayÃÂ ...

It's not easy being a pollster these days. When I started in 1984, two out of three people we reached on the then-universal landline said they were happy to take a poll. "Shh! Someone is calling me from New York and asking me important questions. I will be back at the dinner table in a minute." TodayÃÂ ...

Over the past five years, I've written thousands of words about the scourge of gun violence in America. I was in Las Vegas and interviewed survivors the night of the worst mass shooting in modern American history. But two days after yet another massacre of innocents -- this time in a high school in ParklandÃÂ ...

English teacher Kathy Hansen, casually dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, hands out papers during class at W.T. Woodson high school on Thursday, February 6, 2014, in Fairfax, VA. A group of teachers is demonstrating for better compensation by "dressing down." CREDIT: Jahi Chikwendiu/The WashingtonÃÂ ...

As you've probably heard, President Trump got all gushy about a grand military parade he saw in France last summer, and now he wants one for himself -- and the Pentagon apparently is considering it. But if he was watching any TV this week, he might be rethinking the idea. People on cable news had aÃÂ ...

Jose Mourinho has explained the role he expects Paul Pogba to fill in Manchester United's midfield after dropping the Frenchman for the side's clash with Huddersfield. Pogba was substituted in the second-half of United's defeat at Spurs prior to the trip to the John Smith's Stadium and many pundits haveÃÂ ...

Well the State of the Union address has come and gone. By the time the evening was over, the liberal icon Washington Post had replaced its first front-page headline "A call for bipartisanship" with a major makeover, according to Yahoo, saying Trump gave "a highly partisan and even extremist speech.

The mean 2018 year-end prediction of our 10 marketpundits was 2840 for the Standard & Poor's 500 index, or about 7% higher than the 2651.50 level on the feature's December publication date. The market ran through that 2840 in lightning time, by Jan. 26, though it retreated in last week's selloff. Barron'sÃÂ ...

Minneapolis - The former Bengals calling Sunday's Super Bowl endorse their old boss' decision to bring back head coach Marvin Lewis and colleague Tony Dungy compares it to a move by another Pro football Hall-of-Famer. Boomer Esiason likes the Teryl Austin move. Minneapolis _ The formerÃÂ ...

The truth-squad website PolitiFact crashed just 30 minutes in. A C-Span shot of Representative Nancy Pelosi, scowling and clad entirely in black, quickly became a meme. And the former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, making her debut as a prime time NBCpolitical analyst, declared that President TrumpÃÂ ...

Issues & Ale, an event series from Michigan Radio, hit HopCat in Royal Oak Monday night to discuss the political balls up in the air this year - and why they could spell excitement to come. The night's panelists included the following: Matt Marsden, a Republican political consultant with RevSix Data SystemsÃÂ ...

The extremely acute hearing that the unmitigated pundits possess is amazing. I compare it to looking through a microscope, where one can see minute detail, but can't see anything in the periphery; therefore loosing the full, or true, picture. When the listeners' biases are so prevalent that a single wordÃÂ ...

After ending the previous week convulsed by one S-word, the media seamlessly segues to another. No, not Stormy, but shutdown. "House approves bill to keep government open as Senate Democrats take heat for threatening to block it" is how The Washington Post sets the table today, with the press, if notÃÂ ...

twitter Account Hacks Target Pundits, Diplomats. Turkey "cyber army" Ayyıldız Tim is claiming responsibility for the hacks, which have been directed mostly at public figures worldwide. By. Brooke Binkowski. 16 January 2018. 29. On 16 January 2018, at least two Twitter users followed by U.S. President Donald Trump wereÃÂ ...

Bangkok -- pundits believe that reliable Pheu Thai votes in Thailand's northeast won't easily be swayed by pro-junta elements trying to win their hearts. A number of political observers and people familiar with the political landscape in the northeast said that despite some defections in other regions, PheuÃÂ ...

The Pundits, he alleges, have made a category error by assuming that, because they themselves were struck by the import of the 2016 election, the voters at large similarly were. That need not have been the case. Instead, he notes "[C]onsequential elections do not require electoral upheavals; even smallÃÂ ...

Week 12 of NBA power rankings lists find scribes in general agreement ranking the team as high as 8th and low as 12th. At the halfway mark pundits are closely aligned in terms of where they rank the OKC Thunder. This isn't unusual as history shows most teams who are already seeded will be the teamsÃÂ ...

With vulgarity getting more TV airplay than any time since The Sopranos faded to black, Hollywood and Beltway twitter pages are, no surprise, no more genteel today. Related ÃÂ· 'Fire And Fury' Author Says CNN Host Doing "job Of the White House". "I'm just going to start calling him president Shithole,"ÃÂ ...

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Thursday the U.S. would be safer if President Trump watched cartoons in the morning rather that certain political commentators on Fox News. "If I could make one national security recommendation to the president, it would be stop watching Judge Napolitano on Fox," SchiffÃÂ ...

The abovementioned Pundits imagine that North Korea needs breathing room to further develop its nuclear and missile capacities. Well, frankly, it already secured that breathing room -- precisely because the United States failed, on several occasions, to negotiate more seriously to provide Pyongyang withÃÂ ...

Andy Murray's injury woes continue, as he recently shared in a touching social media post addressing his fans. "I wanted to keep everyone in the loop and get this off my chest as it's really hurting inside," Murray wrote. Since his announcement that he will miss this month's Australian Open, where he is aÃÂ ...

Different heads are talking these days on "Arkansas Week," the venerable public affairs program on the Arkansas Educational Television Network. Don't Miss Out. Real Deals, Whispers and select cover stories are available only to print subscribers. I am a print subscriber. Login to access this story in aÃÂ ...

Arsene Wenger has hit out at Thierry Henry after the former striker claimed that there were signs of division in Arsenal's squad. Henry said that there might be tension in the club's dressing room after Arsenal's 3-2 win over Crystal Palace, as only four players joined Alexis Sanchez in celebrating his first goalÃÂ ...

Tales of the unexpected: Where the pundits got it wrong in 2017. From the snap general election and disputed economic forecasts through to the reprise of 007, Sky News looks back at the year. 14:19, UK, Monday 01 January 2018. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Donald Trump and Theresa may featured among the bigÃÂ ...

Andrew M. Cuomo has long been seen as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, but political Pundits don't seem all that excited about his prospects these days. The Washington Post dropped Cuomo from ninth place in September to 10th in its December rankings of Democratic presidentialÃÂ ...

Why the Pundits are afraid of bitcoin. By marcuss on December 31, 2017 12:44 pm in technology. It seems like every day another financial luminary declares the death of bitcoin… For example, in just the past few months: Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan said bitcoin will ultimately "prove worthless.

Political and economic Pundits have described the year 2017 as challenging to Malawians and warned that things may get worse, especially if government fails to change its direction. Among things that challenged Malawians in 2017 according to analysts include government's failure to deal with corruptionÃÂ ...

As we inch closer to 2018, psychics and Pundits are keeping the tradition of offering up predictions for the upcoming year. This year, psychics and Pundits have 2018 predictions on everything from the World Series to the Donald Trump presidency. It also looks like not everybody is in consensus on theÃÂ ...

Week ten the NBA power rankings lists find the OKC Thunder almost unanimously ranked 7th though one decenter marked them as low as 10th. It was inevitable with the December the OKC Thunder were amassing the Pundits would eventually line up to side with the team winning. With the month and yearÃÂ ...

As the gaze into their crystal balls, some financial advisers and strategists who are well-known on twitter are warning investors to curb their enthusiasm a little. While Wall Street's big banks are talking about a historical year ahead, with expectations the S&P 500 SPX, -0.52% and Dow Jones IndustrialÃÂ ...

There's no indication yet that this dynamic--Trump being Trump rhetorically, while governing like a conservative Republican--is going to change any time soon. Instead, this seems like an inversion of the phantom "pivot" that obsessed Pundits in 2016. Now, instead of waiting for Trump to act "presidential," Pundits areÃÂ ...

After one of the most tumultuous and divisive elections in modern U.S. history, the majority of Americans were pleased to take pause and revel in last year's holiday cheer. Yet for the country's cadre of political Pundits and editorialists, December 2016 was an opportunity to serve a cold Christmas lunch ofÃÂ ...

On the fifth year mark of the horrific mass shooting that left dead 20 children and six adult staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Conn., the tragedy is being recalled and its victims honored by Hollywood celebrities, politicians and many of the journalists and Pundits who covered theÃÂ ...

President Donald Trump is set to deliver his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. Philip Bump of the Washington Post has already prewritten most of what will get posted on twitter tonight. But in case you would like to see it spewed out in real time, here are Pundits' and politicos' live tweets, drawnÃÂ ...

Far-right media Pundits are now calling for a police state. Some of Trump's critics feared he might become a dictator. On the radical right, his fans are now hoping he will. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to facebook Share to Facebook Messenger Share to twitter Share to Reddit Share to email Share toÃÂ ...

I refer to the betting odds. Gamblers (mostly in Europe because political bets are legal there) now give the president a 53 percent chance of finishing his first term. That's it -- they barely think he'll complete four years. This must seem wrong to Trump supporters, but when Trump won the presidency, the oddsÃÂ ...

Property pundits adopted a more nuanced position, however. While mortgagefinance will remain cheap in 2018, despite the upward trend in interest rates, affordability will continue to be constrained by miserly pay settlements. There is a sense that the age of widespread, big house-price increases inÃÂ ...

Week nine the NBA power rankings lists find the OKC Thunder ranked as high as 10th and as low as 17th. In the week nine power rankings most Pundits punished the OKC Thunder for their efforts against the Knicks and Grizzlies. With the team struggling in both those instances it forced some optimists toÃÂ ...

Suddenly, rooting for Republican defeat is the cool thing for GOPPundits. It's easy ... No matter how many Republicans are elected, Pundits and party members have been quick to point out that the GOP is on the precipice of disaster -- not because its fundamental values are flawed, but because too manyÃÂ ...

After one of the most tumultuous and divisive elections in modern U.S. history, the majority of Americans were pleased to take pause and revel in last year's holiday cheer. Yet for the country's cadre of political Pundits and editorialists, December 2016 was an opportunity to serve a cold Christmas lunch ofÃÂ ...

Then there are the local races -- like the one for mayor of Kansas City, Missouri -- which can fly a little under the radar but affect the daily lives of residents nevertheless. Today, our panel of political Pundits help make sense of an upcoming election season which promises to be every bit as contentious asÃÂ ...